Item 41 - Letter from R. H. Quick to Henry Sidgwick

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Reports that he has just seen Mr Wolstenholme's letter to Sidgwick published in the [January number] of the Journal of the Women's Ed[ucation]. Union, and declares that the conclusions arrived at in it are almost identical with his. Proposes that what is 'the ideal thing for those learning to teach is moderate work in school [under supervision] with opportunities of seeing good teaching and with time for private studies.' States that he has most of the books Mr Wolstenholme mentions, and declares them to be 'fearfully dull reading'. Announces that 'the great Encyc. des gesamten Erziehrungs [und] [Unterricht] Wesens edited by K.A. Schmid has been completed since Mr Wolstenholme wrote', and suggests that a selection of articles from it might be translated. Announces that the work is also to appear in a smaller form as a '"Handbuch"'. Reports that some of the best known German writings have already been translated in the United States and are obtainable 'in H. Barnard's German Pedagogy and German Educational Reformers.' States that he has asked the English agent for those books, 'Mr Thos Laurie, to send some copies down to Deightons.' Reports that the French 'are throwing German material into admirable form in Buisson's Dictionnaire de Pedagogie now publishing at Hachettes', and there is talk of doing 'a similar work in English, as [Kiddle and Schem's] Cyclopaedia of Education is too American...'